C. S. Pacat is a bestselling Australian author, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015.
[4][2] Pacat wrote the Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist.
[1] Pacat's first novel Captive Prince began as an online serial of original "slash" fiction on LiveJournal, where it garnered viral attention.
[3] Self-published in February 2013, Captive Prince was then acquired by Penguin Random House, and published commercially in April 2015 in multiple territories.
[10] In 2019 she announced a new trilogy, Dark Rise, a YA fantasy novel series.